Key Dates
6 May 2008
Notification of Acceptances
26 May 2008
Early Registration Cut-off Date
9 June 2008
Late breaking Abstract Submission Date
2 July 2008
Pre & Post Congress Tours
2 July 2008
Social Program Bookings
2 July 2008
Congress Day Tours
9 July 2008
Accommodation Bookings
9 July 2008
Accommodation Deposit deadline
9-10 August 2008
Postgraduate Weekend Courses
10-14 August 2008
Congress Opens
With thanks to
Dr Bruce R. Rosengard
Bruce R. Rosengard was born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts. He is a graduate of The Roxbury Latin School and received his undergraduate degrees in Biology and Chemisty, summa cum laude, from Tufts University. He then obtained his medical degree from The Johns Hopkins University, where he was the first recipient at Hopkins of an American Heart Association Predoctoral Research Fellowship. Dr Rosengard stayed at Johns Hopkins for his postgraduate training in general and cardiothoracic surgery. During that time, he spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow with David Sachs in transplantation immunology at the NIH and six months in the UK as a fellow in cardiothoracic transplantation at the Papworth Hospital.
In 1995, Dr Rosengard joined the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania, where he rose to the rank of Associate Professor. During his tenure at PENN, he had the unique distinction of being the only surgeon to ever receive the research fellowship from both the American Surgical Association and the American Society for Thoracic Surgery, the two oldest and most prestigious cardiothoracic and general surgical societies in the US. At PENN, his NIH-funded basic research focused on endothelial cell immunology and his HRSA-funded clinical research was directed at efforts to improve the evaluation and management of multiorgan donors. In July 2003, Dr Rosengard returned to Papworth Hospital and the University of Cambridge, where he was the first British Heart Foundation Professor and Chair of Cardiothoracic Surgery. During his tenure at Cambridge he pioneered "beating heart transplants" by heading a trial to assess warm blood perfusion for donor hearts.
In September 2006, he returned to his hometown to join the staff at Massachusetts General Hospital and the faculty of Harvard Medical School. At MGH, he has been appointed as the Surgical Director of Cardiac Transplantation and the Co-Director of the Cardiothoracic Transplant Laboratory. Dr. Rosengard's clinical interests include complex valvular surgery, cardiopulmonary transplantation, mechanical cardiac assist, and surgery for atrial fibrillation. In addition to continuing to work on warm blood perfusion of donor organs, his laboratory studies the mechanisms responsible for chronic heart rejection, transplantation tolerance, and is developing novel strategies employing both adult and embryonic stem cells to treat heart failure.
Assoc Prof Gregory Snell MBBS MD FRACP
A/Prof Greg Snell trained in Lung Transplantation at the University of Toronto on a Will Rogers Scholarship and was subsequently awarded a Fellowship in Respiratory Medicine at The University of Toronto in 1991-92 and a Monash University Doctorate of Medicine in 2007. He has worked at The Alfred Hospital in transplantation since 1992 and is currently the Medical Head of the Lung Transplant Service and Associate Professor of Monash University. He now leads one of the most prolific lung transplant programmes in the world.
Dr Snell is a past Chairman of The International Society of Heart & Lung Transplantation Pulmonary Transplantation Council and currently the Chair, Victorian and Tasmanian Transplant Advisory Group, Associate Editor Journal of Heart Lung Transplant and is on the Lifegift Victorian Organ Donor Service Advisory Committee. He has published over 130 articles, most recently in the area of maximising potential transplant opportunities including Donation-after-Cardiac-Death organ procurement strategies and organ donation ethical issues.
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